{"id":23193,"date":"2016-08-29T18:44:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Much-buzz-about-the-new-planet-found-to-orbit-Proxima-Centauri-the-small-star-closest-to-Earth-and-a-loosely"},"modified":"2016-08-29T18:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:44:48","slug":"much-buzz-about-the-new-planet-found-to-orbit-proxima-centauri-the-small-star-closest-to-earth-and-a-loosely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/08\/29\/much-buzz-about-the-new-planet-found-to-orbit-proxima-centauri-the-small-star-closest-to-earth-and-a-loosely\/","title":{"rendered":"Much buzz about the new planet found to orbit Proxima Centauri, the (small) star closest to Earth and a loosely&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p><strong>Originally shared by David Brin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much buzz about the new planet found to orbit Proxima Centauri, the (small) star closest to Earth and a loosely affiliated member of the Alpha Centauri triple star system that\u2019s featured in Liu Cixin\u2019s \u201cThe Three Body Problem.\u201d  Though Proxima b\u2019s year only lasts 11.2 days, it appears to be in Proxima\u2019s CUZ or Continuously Habitable Zone because Proxima is small and dim.  That nearness also probably has locked planet b with one face always sunward, as our moon always faces Earth.  That, plus Proxima\u2019s likely fluctuations as a flare star, means that any life would likely cluster along a \u201ctwilight zone\u201d where slanting sunlight and shaded zones allow water to pool and organisms to duck away from sleet storms of ionizing radiation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/08\/27\/exclusive-heres-what-life-on-the-newly-discovered-second-earth-would-probably-look-like\/#ixzz4Ia6byiWU\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/08\/27\/exclusive-heres-what-life-on-the-newly-discovered-second-earth-would-probably-look-like\/#ixzz4Ia6byiWU<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Much buzz about the new planet found to orbit Proxima Centauri, the (small) star closest to Earth and a loosely&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/08\/29\/much-buzz-about-the-new-planet-found-to-orbit-proxima-centauri-the-small-star-closest-to-earth-and-a-loosely\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}